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1st Jun 2025
a perfect blog editor What is the perfect blog editor? Nextjs with mdx is one way of doing it...kinda.
11th May 2020
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a perfect blog editor

from David Gerrells [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th May 2020
What is the perfect blog editor? Nextjs with mdx is one way of doing it...kinda.
Haunt 0.4.0 released I'm quite a bit late on this one, but Haunt version 0.4.0 was released released back in July. I...
22nd Sep 2026
1

Haunt 0.4.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Sep 2026
I'm quite a bit late on this one, but Haunt version 0.4.0 was released released back in July. I haven't had much time for blogging, but I'm catching up now! This release contains a small set of improvements and bug fixes since the 0.3.0 release in 2024. About Haunt Haunt is a...
After the HN launch PostHog launched on Hacker News . We were pleased with the reception. The reason we launched wasn’t...
1st Mar 2020
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After the HN launch

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Mar 2020
PostHog launched on Hacker News . We were pleased with the reception. The reason we launched wasn’t trying to get the world’s attention – we wanted to…
Perspective Perspective 2024-08-06 I recently read both Starting Hospice and No Salt posted on Jake’s blog and...
6th Aug 2024
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Perspective

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Aug 2024
Perspective 2024-08-06 I recently read both Starting Hospice and No Salt posted on Jake’s blog and was quite moved. I don’t know Jake and have never met him - but his writing and shared experiences give a very real look into his mind and perspective. If you haven’t yet, I...
April updates March was a big month for Buttondown. Lots of new features, and even more coming up soon!
8th Apr 2019
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April updates

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Apr 2019
March was a big month for Buttondown. Lots of new features, and even more coming up soon!
Huge Pages are a Good Idea Nearly all programs are written to access virtual memory addresses, which the CPU must translate to...
16th Jan 2023
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Huge Pages are a Good Idea

from Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jan 2023
Nearly all programs are written to access virtual memory addresses, which the CPU must translate to physical addresses. These translations are usually fast because the mappings are cached in the CPU's Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB). Unfortunately, virtual memory on x86 has...
My 2025 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
6th Aug 2025
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My 2025 New Mac Setup

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Aug 2025
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
Managing your Kubernetes cluster using Helm and Terraform In a previous post, I explained how to manage a Kubernetes cluster with FluxCD. This showed a way to...
10th Oct 2022
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Managing your Kubernetes cluster using Helm and Terraform

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Oct 2022
In a previous post, I explained how to manage a Kubernetes cluster with FluxCD. This showed a way to implement a GitOps workflow, which means using a Git repository as the source of truth for the state of your cluster. Flux introduces multiple new objects in your Kubernetes...
March updates There have been a bunch of great Buttondown updates.
4th Apr 2018
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March updates

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Apr 2018
There have been a bunch of great Buttondown updates.
gitionary: the graphical game of git guessing I apparently have a knack for coming up with nerdy party games. Three Fridays ago, my 6.033 TA...
8th Mar 2010
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gitionary: the graphical game of git guessing

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Mar 2010
I apparently have a knack for coming up with nerdy party games. Three Fridays ago, my 6.033 TA encouraged us to practice creating diagrams for our design project proposals by trying to identify UNIX commands or filesystem structures from our partner's drawings. He claims that...
How to fold a mini-zine Here's how to fold a mini-zine, featuring my mini-zine So you want to make a public comment! Fold...
15th Aug 2025
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How to fold a mini-zine

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Aug 2025
Here's how to fold a mini-zine, featuring my mini-zine So you want to make a public comment! Fold the printed mini-zine page in half, then half in again, and then in half again as shown. When you open the piece of paper, each of the pages should fit fully within a set of...
24th Jan 2016
Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships Wisdom from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git and Linux
8th Jul 2024
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Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships

from Engineer’s Codex [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jul 2024
Wisdom from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git and Linux
18th Aug 2026
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August 2026

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Aug 2026
Empty Pointers and Constellations of AI On the fuzziness of calling things “artificial intelligence” and moving the goalposts
17th Dec 2022
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Empty Pointers and Constellations of AI

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Dec 2022
On the fuzziness of calling things “artificial intelligence” and moving the goalposts
New talk: Learning DNS in 10 years Here’s a keynote I gave at RubyConf Mini last year: Learning DNS in 10 years. It’s about strategies...
8th May 2023
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New talk: Learning DNS in 10 years

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th May 2023
Here’s a keynote I gave at RubyConf Mini last year: Learning DNS in 10 years. It’s about strategies I use to learn hard things. I just noticed that they’d released the video the other day, so I’m just posting it now even though I gave the talk 6 months ago. Here’s the video, as...
I Am Happy Not To Be A Web Developer Anymore I wrote my first single-page web app in Javascript in 2005, right after learning about...
15th Sep 2023
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I Am Happy Not To Be A Web Developer Anymore

from The Codist [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Sep 2023
I wrote my first single-page web app in Javascript in 2005, right after learning about XMLHttpRequest and before any serious frameworks existed. I left professional web development behind around 2009 (I started in 1997 with WebObjects) and spent the final decade of my career...
p-fast trie: lexically ordered hash map Here’s a sketch of an idea that might or might not be a good idea. Dunno if it’s similar to...
4th Aug 2025
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p-fast trie: lexically ordered hash map

from Tony Finch's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Aug 2025
Here’s a sketch of an idea that might or might not be a good idea. Dunno if it’s similar to something already described in the literature – if you know of something, please let me know via the links in the footer! The gist is to throw away the tree and interior pointers from...
Switching Blot sync from Google Drive to Git <![CDATA[In 2023 I migrated my personal website from Squarespace to Blot. Blot is a static site...
2nd Feb 2025
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Switching Blot sync from Google Drive to Git

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Feb 2025
<![CDATA[In 2023 I migrated my personal website from Squarespace to Blot. Blot is a static site generator that publishes as a website a folder stored on Google Drive, Dropbox, or a Git repository. Back then I set up Blot to publish a Google Drive folder but I recently switched...
Marbled V60-style coffee cone, 2023 Sedimentary rock / canyons / weathering and erosion
2nd Dec 2023
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Marbled V60-style coffee cone, 2023

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Dec 2023
Sedimentary rock / canyons / weathering and erosion
SumatraPDF new features: March 18, 2026 New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: DDE commands accept arguments Commands sent...
2 weeks ago
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SumatraPDF new features: March 18, 2026

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 weeks ago
New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: DDE commands accept arguments Commands sent via DDE can take arguments, the same as in custom shortcuts (#5383). Loading message in tab While a document loads, its tab shows a “loading” message instead of the home...
Pricing determines your business model Pricing is inextricably linked to brand, product, and purchasing decisions. It cannot be "figured...
5th Nov 2014
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Pricing determines your business model

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Nov 2014
Pricing is inextricably linked to brand, product, and purchasing decisions. It cannot be "figured out later," because determines your business model today.
What is a Senior Software Engineer at Wise and Amazon? Common expectations for the senior level at the two companies, and compensation packages at Wise.
1st Aug 2023
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What is a Senior Software Engineer at Wise and Amazon?

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Aug 2023
Common expectations for the senior level at the two companies, and compensation packages at Wise.
Learning Dutch online in 2023 Back in 2020, I left France to live in the Netherlands. Since then, I have spent some time learning...
2nd Mar 2023
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Learning Dutch online in 2023

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Mar 2023
Back in 2020, I left France to live in the Netherlands. Since then, I have spent some time learning the language and reached an intermediate (B1-B2) level. While learning Dutch is not a hard requirement to live and work in the country, it does make day-to-day life a bit more...
How To Center a Div Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has...
13th Feb 2024
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How To Center a Div

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Feb 2024
Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has evolved, we’ve been given lots of new tools we can use… But how do we pick the best option? When do we use Flexbox, or CSS Grid, or something else? Let's dig into it.
You’re probably using the wrong dictionary The way I thought you used a dictionary was that you looked up words you've never heard of, or whose...
18th May 2014
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You’re probably using the wrong dictionary

from the jsomers.net blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th May 2014
The way I thought you used a dictionary was that you looked up words you've never heard of, or whose sense you're unsure of. You would never look up an ordinary word -- like example, or sport, or magic -- because all you'll learn is what it means, and that you already know....
Recently: Cycling and Autumn I haven’t been posting much to the ‘main blog’ recently, but I have been keeping the micro blog...
3rd Nov 2024
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Recently: Cycling and Autumn

from macwright.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Nov 2024
I haven’t been posting much to the ‘main blog’ recently, but I have been keeping the micro blog updates humming. If you want more content in your RSS reader, you can subscribe to those posts, which are shorter, more scattered, and even less copyedited. It feels bad to have...
An Interactive Guide to Flexbox When we truly learn the secrets of the Flexbox layout mode, we can build absolutely incredible...
22nd Nov 2022
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An Interactive Guide to Flexbox

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Nov 2022
When we truly learn the secrets of the Flexbox layout mode, we can build absolutely incredible things. Fluid layouts that stretch and shrink without arbitrary breakpoints. In this action-packed interactive tutorial, we'll pop the hood on the Flexbox algorithm and learn how to do...
AI Dev Tools Panel - Stripe AI day I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
7th Jul 2023
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AI Dev Tools Panel - Stripe AI day

from Elad Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Jul 2023
I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
Stimela 23 June 1898. Mqanduli, Tembuland. “But who’s going to teach our sons to become men?” Gcinikhaya...
28th Jan 2023
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Stimela

from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Jan 2023
23 June 1898. Mqanduli, Tembuland. “But who’s going to teach our sons to become men?” Gcinikhaya asked this while squashing the newspaper within her clenched fist. Her lips were quivering, her face contorted to hold back the tears of anger and fear. “My brother went to the mines...
Golden Glide Silhouette This Golden Eagle soared past me today and I managed to capture a couple of frames. Magnificent to...
9th Jul 2022
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Golden Glide Silhouette

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jul 2022
This Golden Eagle soared past me today and I managed to capture a couple of frames. Magnificent to watch.
What do we lose moving from Reason to mlx? Explain which nice syntactic features we had in Reason that we won't be able to keep if we migrate...
12th Sep 2025
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What do we lose moving from Reason to mlx?

from sancho.dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Sep 2025
Explain which nice syntactic features we had in Reason that we won't be able to keep if we migrate to mlx
The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend I keep noticing those of us in the frontend field being treated much the same as nurses, paralegals,...
7th Mar 2024
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The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Mar 2024
I keep noticing those of us in the frontend field being treated much the same as nurses, paralegals, and executive assistants. Our work is seen as important, certainly, but just not the same as, or as important as, the “real” work.
The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify’s AI DJ Am I naïve in expecting Artificial Intelligence to be smart? Is my interpretation of the word...
26th Feb 2026
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The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify’s AI DJ

from Charles Petzold [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Feb 2026
Am I naïve in expecting Artificial Intelligence to be smart? Is my interpretation of the word “intelligence” too literal? And when an AI behaves stupidly, who’s to blame? The programmers or the AI entity itself? Is it even proper to make a distinction between the two? Or does the...
A love letter to Apache Echarts In the world of software development, I believe the 7th circle of hell is called “NPM”. It’s a place...
14th Feb 2024
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A love letter to Apache Echarts

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Feb 2024
In the world of software development, I believe the 7th circle of hell is called “NPM”. It’s a place where you can find Javascript libraries that make great promises only to disappoint you once you actually import them. I know this because I even wrote one. When you find a gem...
7 Best Practices for Every Python Developer If you’re looking to improve your coding, there are lots of steps you can take, but the first is...
4th Jan 2022
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7 Best Practices for Every Python Developer

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jan 2022
If you’re looking to improve your coding, there are lots of steps you can take, but the first is focusing on Python best practices. It’s really important that your code is readable, testable, and maintainable. From picking good variable names, refactoring code that gets repeated...
AI Homelab Part 2: what I learned building my own chatbot When I first started playing around with LLMs, I used Ollama on my M1 Mac Studio.
8th Jul 2026
1

AI Homelab Part 2: what I learned building my own chatbot

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jul 2026
When I first started playing around with LLMs, I used Ollama on my M1 Mac Studio.
July 1, 2009 The opposite of youth is compromise – Girl I recovered this article from my old blog via the...
1st Jul 2009
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July 1, 2009

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jul 2009
The opposite of youth is compromise – Girl I recovered this article from my old blog via the Internet Archive. If you found this article useful or entertaining (or even if you didn’t) consider donating to the Internet Archive
Using Playwright to test my static sites I build a lot of static websites – including this site and all of my local media archives – and I...
2nd May 2026
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Using Playwright to test my static sites

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd May 2026
I build a lot of static websites – including this site and all of my local media archives – and I want to test them. Most of my pages are static HTML and I can write automated tests that analyse the HTML, but for more complex sites I have JavaScript that runs in the browser and...
In-App Purchase Rules A summary of today’s changes to 3.1.3 Other Purchase Methods: Your app must use Apple’s...
11th Sep 2020
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In-App Purchase Rules

from Marco.org [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Sep 2020
A summary of today’s changes to 3.1.3 Other Purchase Methods: Your app must use Apple’s in-app-purchase (IAP) system for all purchases made in the app. Unless they’re purchases for goods or services that are consumed outside the app, in which case you are prohibited from using...
I have not failed enough I was recently listening through the How to succeed at failing series on the Freakonomics podcast...
30th Dec 2023
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I have not failed enough

from Jibran’s Perspective [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Dec 2023
I was recently listening through the How to succeed at failing series on the Freakonomics podcast and started to think about how often I had failed in the past few years. The first answer was - not too much. I couldn’t think of too many instances of where I had “failed”. This was...
Boot.dev Beat. January 2023 If you can’t tell from my absurd profile photo below, I’ve been having too much fun with AI art this...
1st Feb 2023
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Boot.dev Beat. January 2023

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Feb 2023
If you can’t tell from my absurd profile photo below, I’ve been having too much fun with AI art this month.
Achieving Data Integrity Using Cryptography Data integrity refers to the accuracy, legitimacy, and consistency of information in a system. When...
4th May 2020
1

Achieving Data Integrity Using Cryptography

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th May 2020
Data integrity refers to the accuracy, legitimacy, and consistency of information in a system. When a message is sent, particularly using an untrusted medium, data integrity provides us with confidence that the message wasn’t tampered with. For example, the SSL signature of...
Every product needs an architecture vision Software projects often stop working on architecture after the first phase is done. An architecture...
5th Feb 2024
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Every product needs an architecture vision

from Florian Bellmann | Be curious, explore and meditate. [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Feb 2024
Software projects often stop working on architecture after the first phase is done. An architecture vision can prevent that from happening.
Turbo 8 released We’re excited to announce the release of Turbo v8, a major update to the Turbo front-end framework....
7th Feb 2024
35

Turbo 8 released

from 37signals Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Feb 2024
We’re excited to announce the release of Turbo v8, a major update to the Turbo front-end framework. This release introduces a suite of innovative features designed to enhance web development and user experiences across the board. Here are the key highlights of Turbo v8: Morphing...
Chasing the Pixel-Perfect Dream Is it possible to create an implementation of a design that matches to-the-pixel? Well, not really,...
2nd Nov 2020
39

Chasing the Pixel-Perfect Dream

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Nov 2020
Is it possible to create an implementation of a design that matches to-the-pixel? Well, not really, but that shouldn't discourage us! In this article, I'll show how I became designers' best friend by leveraging a series of tricks to get my implementation looking...
Exploring Interlisp-10 and TWENEX <![CDATA[I'm exploring another corner of the Interlisp ecosystem and history: the Interlisp-10...
1st Sep 2025
38

Exploring Interlisp-10 and TWENEX

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Sep 2025
<![CDATA[I'm exploring another corner of the Interlisp ecosystem and history: the Interlisp-10 implementation for DEC PDP-10 mainframes, a 1970s character based environment that predated the graphical Interlisp-D system. I approached this corner when I set out to learn and...
Recently The snow has been tough for my running schedule in February but it's starting to clear and...
1st Mar 2026
1

Recently

from Tom MacWright [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Mar 2026
The snow has been tough for my running schedule in February but it's starting to clear and temperatures have started to lift. Yesterday got in a solid 45 miles of cycling, including up to this point near the George Washington Bridge, and back on the Tappan Zee. Listening I didn't...
More or less You must select between three pricing strategies, and fully commit to their implications.
1st Jun 2025
1

More or less

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2025
You must select between three pricing strategies, and fully commit to their implications.
Anchoring Software to Major Versions In a SemVer world, major releases are those which contain incompatible API changes. We often see...
24th May 2024
93

Anchoring Software to Major Versions

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th May 2024
In a SemVer world, major releases are those which contain incompatible API changes. We often see software projects anchor themselves to major versions for long periods of time, usually with the promise of stability. We all know how frustrating it is to upgrade a package and run...
Designing a fast I wake up with a jolt, spilling most of my breakfast cereal onto a thirsty couch. My eyes find the...
16th Jul 2015
1

Designing a fast

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jul 2015
I wake up with a jolt, spilling most of my breakfast cereal onto a thirsty couch. My eyes find the clock. Cleaning will have to wait. I'm downing water like there's no tomorrow, but really tomorrow starts in one minute. Still drinking. All work is thirsty work if the day is long...
The Cloud vs Edge Debate Is Over Why choose between Cloud and Edge when you can have both?
26th May 2026
1

The Cloud vs Edge Debate Is Over

from Marco Bambini [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th May 2026
Why choose between Cloud and Edge when you can have both?
The state of modern Front End Let's talk about front-end. There'll be a lot of swearing, I'm sorry. About once every six...
14th May 2023
36

The state of modern Front End

from Founder's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th May 2023
Let's talk about front-end. There'll be a lot of swearing, I'm sorry. About once every six months another blogger bursts into HackerNews/Twitter trends, saying - hey, enough of that JavaScript bloat, let's all use modern HTML controls! There's <dialog> for modal dialogs,...
Writing Faster Python - Introduction 2022 Update: I started writing these articles in 2020 using Python 3.8 on a 2017 MacBook Pro with...
18th Aug 2020
1

Writing Faster Python - Introduction

from Sebastian Witowski [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Aug 2020
2022 Update: I started writing these articles in 2020 using Python 3.8 on a 2017 MacBook Pro with Intel CPU. In 2022, I switched to a new MacBook Pro with M1 CPU and decided to also switch to the latest Python 3.11 version as it offers some nice speed-up improvements. So all the...
Enjoying the moment * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When I look back...
1st May 2011
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Enjoying the moment

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2011
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When I look back on the times I’ve done the most productive work on my startup [http://bufferapp.com], it has always been when I’ve had a great balance of work and rest...
C is Turing complete Yesterday there was some discussion on the Orange Site about whether or not C is Turing...
2nd Aug 2024
79

C is Turing complete

from Tony Finch's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Aug 2024
Yesterday there was some discussion on the Orange Site about whether or not C is Turing complete. The consensus in the StackOverflow question is, no, because the C abstract machine is a (large) finite state machine, or maybe yes, if you believe that unaddressable local...
Changing the Tires on a Moving Codebase 2020 was a year of reckonings. And for all that was beyond one’s control, as the year went on, I...
10th Mar 2021
1

Changing the Tires on a Moving Codebase

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Mar 2021
2020 was a year of reckonings. And for all that was beyond one’s control, as the year went on, I found myself pouring more and more into the one thing that felt within reach: futureproofing of the large enterprise web application I helped build, SimpleLegal. Now complete, this...
The Absolute Best Way to Run Multiple npm Scripts in Parallel in 2022 Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log...
11th Oct 2022
1

The Absolute Best Way to Run Multiple npm Scripts in Parallel in 2022

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Oct 2022
Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log output since I had to look it up today.
The McPhee method When I first started writing professionally, for the Atlantic’s website, I taught myself “reporting”...
17th Aug 2025
51

The McPhee method

from the jsomers.net blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Aug 2025
When I first started writing professionally, for the Atlantic’s website, I taught myself “reporting” with a simple self-made curriculum unfolding over six or seven articles. The first two pieces I wrote from my head, with reference to things I already knew or to books I’d read....
How “Engineering-Driven” Leads to “Engineering-Supremacy” Honeycomb has a reputation for being a very engineering-driven company. No surprise there, since it...
20th Jan 2022
1

How “Engineering-Driven” Leads to “Engineering-Supremacy”

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Jan 2022
Honeycomb has a reputation for being a very engineering-driven company. No surprise there, since it was founded by two engineers and our mission involves building an engineering product for other engineers. We are never going to stop being engineering-driven in the sense that we...
7th Apr 2026
1

Dozen

from davidyat.es [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Apr 2026
I love my slightly smart tiny TV details { font-size: var(--scale1); margin-top: 0.25rem !important; } details summary...
13th May 2024
25

I love my slightly smart tiny TV

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th May 2024
details { font-size: var(--scale1); margin-top: 0.25rem !important; } details summary { line-height: 1.2; } details p { line-height: 1.35; margin-top: var(--scale0); } I swear this isn’t a sponsored post. I impulse bought a TinyTV 2 recently. It...
Clip sharing with Overcast Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with...
27th Apr 2019
42

Clip sharing with Overcast

from Marco.org [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Apr 2019
Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with publicly shareable episode links and optional recommendations from your Twitter friends since version 1.0 in 2014. Podcast sharing has been limited to audio and links, but today’s...
Halloween Nerd Projects 👻 Last year I got 229 trick-or-treaters at my house. Candy, yo! The previous year it was 194. The...
30th Oct 2018
1

Halloween Nerd Projects 👻

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Oct 2018
Last year I got 229 trick-or-treaters at my house. Candy, yo! The previous year it was 194. The year before that it was 176. The year before that I lived in a duplex that was roughly two blocks from my current house; that year I didn’t think to track how many trick-or-treaters...
Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS How to customise Roam Research with your own CSS themes
15th Dec 2020
26

Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Dec 2020
How to customise Roam Research with your own CSS themes
Less cgo overhead in Go 1.8 name old time/op new time/op delta CgoNoop-8 146ns ± 1% 56ns ± 6% -61.57% (p=0.000...
15th Feb 2017
22

Less cgo overhead in Go 1.8

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Feb 2017
name old time/op new time/op delta CgoNoop-8 146ns ± 1% 56ns ± 6% -61.57% (p=0.000 n=25+30) golang.org/cl/30080
Using Google Analytics was deemed 'illegal' in some EU countries. We built a microsite in 48 hours... On January 14, 2022, the world learned that Austria had declared Google Analytics to be illegal (in...
9th May 2022
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On January 14, 2022, the world learned that Austria had declared Google Analytics to be illegal (in its default form), since it transmits IP addresses…
Electric Geek Transportation Systems I've never thought of myself as a "car person". The last new car I bought (and in fact, now that I...
20th Aug 2019
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Electric Geek Transportation Systems

from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Aug 2019
I've never thought of myself as a "car person". The last new car I bought (and in fact, now that I think about it, the first new car I ever bought) was the quirky 1998 Ford Contour SVT. Since then we bought a VW station wagon
Seeing the Matrix: A First-Principles Approach to Computer Architecture Building a mental model of computer architecture from first principles
5th Apr 2025
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Seeing the Matrix: A First-Principles Approach to Computer Architecture

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Apr 2025
Building a mental model of computer architecture from first principles
#34 a button is not a link Bad code <button type="button" onclick="window.open('https://example.com/other-page')">Link target...
26th Nov 2024
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#34 a button is not a link

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Nov 2024
Bad code <button type="button" onclick="window.open('https://example.com/other-page')">Link target description</button> Issues and how to fix them A button opening a link will be unexpected behavior for screen reader users. No matter how it is styled. Links disguised as buttons...
Using User-Select Using User-Select 2019-06-04 Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple...
4th Jun 2019
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Using User-Select

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jun 2019
Using User-Select 2019-06-04 Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple action across the web. Now, what if I told you the ability to control what a user can select is configurable with a single CSS property? Introducing the CSS property Simply put, the...
The current technology is not ready for proper blending The idea that we must always linearize sRGB gradients or work in a perceptually uniform colorspace...
18th Jul 2025
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The current technology is not ready for proper blending

from A small freedom area RSS [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Jul 2025
The idea that we must always linearize sRGB gradients or work in a perceptually uniform colorspace is starting to be accepted universally. But is it that simple? When I learned about the subject, it felt like being handed a hammer and using it everywhere. The reality is a bit...
2015-01-10 what-if.xkcd.com/124/
10th Jan 2015
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2015-01-10

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jan 2015
what-if.xkcd.com/124/
2017 by the numbers These are some meaningless numbers. Books read: 34 (goal 50) White trash: the 400-year untold...
31st Dec 2017
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2017 by the numbers

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Dec 2017
These are some meaningless numbers. Books read: 34 (goal 50) White trash: the 400-year untold history of class in America by Nancy Isenberg Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling Brave New World by Aldous...
Building openring with Jekyll Build Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it’s great when bloggers post their own...
2nd Dec 2022
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Building openring with Jekyll Build

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Dec 2022
Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it’s great when bloggers post their own personal “reading list” of blogs they themselves follow. Whether this is a customized Blogroll page or footnotes in their individual articles, I find it really helpful to find more...
Fast compilers for fast programs Fast compilers for fast programs Compiler author incentives Aside: languages get caught in the...
14th Apr 2019
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Fast compilers for fast programs

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Apr 2019
Fast compilers for fast programs Compiler author incentives Aside: languages get caught in the middle The "medium-sized project" moment 2019-04-14 Compiler authors face a tradeoff between compiler speed and executable speed. Take longer to build a binary and you can build a...
2014-03-08 www.azarask.in/blog/post/the-wrong-problem
8th Mar 2014
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2014-03-08

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Mar 2014
www.azarask.in/blog/post/the-wrong-problem
Virtual Memory: A Deep Dive into Page Tables, TLBs, and Linux Internals From page faults to NUMA topology: how the Linux kernel manages memory, and what that means for the...
10th May 2026
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Virtual Memory: A Deep Dive into Page Tables, TLBs, and Linux Internals

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th May 2026
From page faults to NUMA topology: how the Linux kernel manages memory, and what that means for the performance of data-intensive systems.
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook Web Development on a $200 Chromebook 2020-01-07 This blog post was written, edited and tested...
7th Jan 2020
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Web Development on a $200 Chromebook

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Jan 2020
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook 2020-01-07 This blog post was written, edited and tested locally on a cheap $200 Chromebook. The article draft was composed in Sublime Text. Jekyll (the SSG this website uses) was generated via the Linux Beta Terminal running alongside Chrome...
How one line of code caused a $60 million loss 60,000 people lost full phone service, half of AT&T's network was down, and 500 airline flights were...
13th Nov 2023
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How one line of code caused a $60 million loss

from Engineer’s Codex [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Nov 2023
60,000 people lost full phone service, half of AT&T's network was down, and 500 airline flights were delayed
Folding the DOM In this post, we'll explore a technique we can use to "fold" a DOM node, like folding a letter in...
19th May 2019
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Folding the DOM

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th May 2019
In this post, we'll explore a technique we can use to "fold" a DOM node, like folding a letter in real-life. On that journey, we'll learn a lot about 3D transforms and CSS animation techniques!
Video: Barbershop tag taught with hand signs I recorded a video multitrack of a barbershop tag, showing all four parts in sol-feg hand signs.
14th Jun 2008
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Video: Barbershop tag taught with hand signs

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Jun 2008
I recorded a video multitrack of a barbershop tag, showing all four parts in sol-feg hand signs.
ReasonML for production React Apps? 🤔 (Part 4) This is the last article of the series. We've built a few things with ReasonReact and now it's time...
1st Jun 2019
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ReasonML for production React Apps? 🤔 (Part 4)

from Tinloof - Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2019
This is the last article of the series. We've built a few things with ReasonReact and now it's time to share my opinion about using Reason to create React applications. Access Part 1 here, Part 2 here and Part 3 here. Though, my opinion shouldn't really matter if you're also...
Notes on Improving Churn Ask any B2C SaaS founder what metric they’d like to improve and most will say reducing churn....
12th Mar 2025
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Notes on Improving Churn

from Marc Astbury [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Mar 2025
Ask any B2C SaaS founder what metric they’d like to improve and most will say reducing churn. However, proactively reducing churn is a difficult task. I’ll outline the approach we’ve taken at Jenni AI to go from ~17% to 9% churn over the past year. We are still a work in progress...
Cocoa brownies Cocoa brownies are pretty magical, i.e. particularly good at staying soft and gooey, and Alice...
16th Aug 2018
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Cocoa brownies

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Aug 2018
Cocoa brownies are pretty magical, i.e. particularly good at staying soft and gooey, and Alice Medrich's ingredient list is nearly flawless. (Okay, okay, I can never truly stick to a recipe as written. Here, I prefer a little more vanilla extract and like to put a pinch of flaky...
Q1 planning We're excited for what's in store for 2023!
2nd Jan 2023
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Q1 planning

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jan 2023
We're excited for what's in store for 2023!
Building an Arcade Stick I’ve been into playing games on my RetroPie machine lately and thought it would be cool to build an...
3rd Jun 2019
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Building an Arcade Stick

from Alex Meub [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jun 2019
I’ve been into playing games on my RetroPie machine lately and thought it would be cool to build an arcade stick (also called a “fight stick”). Here’s the finished product: Materials and Components I had some leftover IKEA oak butcher block from a kitchen project and I thought...
Container Queries Unleashed Container queries expand the universe of designs that can be implemented, giving us whole new...
27th Jan 2025
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Container Queries Unleashed

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Jan 2025
Container queries expand the universe of designs that can be implemented, giving us whole new superpowers. Now that container queries are broadly available, I think it’s time we start exploring this potential! In this post, I’ll share the “killer pattern” I can’t stop using in my...
Visit for a surprise Could spoiling a joke be an accessibility issue? You better believe it. Web Content Accessibility...
1st Sep 2022
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Visit for a surprise

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Sep 2022
Could spoiling a joke be an accessibility issue? You better believe it. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Success Criterion 2.4.4: Link Purpose (In Context) instructs us to ensure that a link’s accessible name makes sense when separated from its surrounding context. It’s why...
How To Podcast Through my 4 (!) podcasts I obviously have built up a lot of opinions on podcasting over the years....
7th Dec 2025
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How To Podcast

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Dec 2025
Through my 4 (!) podcasts I obviously have built up a lot of opinions on podcasting over the years. Here's some of them. The two outlier podcasts of our time are Dwarkesh and TBPN, and I will explain my mental model of them to the end - the following advice is what I strongly...
Kagi now accepts Paypal, EUR and Bitcoin (Lightning) payments One of the most frequently requested features on Kagi has been the expansion of our payment methods...
31st Aug 2023
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Kagi now accepts Paypal, EUR and Bitcoin (Lightning) payments

from Kagi Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Aug 2023
One of the most frequently requested features on Kagi has been the expansion of our payment methods so that more people can more easilly enjoy the benefits of Kagi Search.
On working and contributing to conferences abroad This blog post is another one in the ‘writing things down to structure my thinking on where I want...
6th Feb 2025
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On working and contributing to conferences abroad

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Feb 2025
This blog post is another one in the ‘writing things down to structure my thinking on where I want my career to go’ series. I will get back to writing technical and automation blog posts soon, but I need to finish my contract testing course first. One of the things I like to do...
26th Mar 2014
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fstl

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Mar 2014
Winner, Name That Ware November 2025 The Ware for November 2025 is a controller from the card-activated power switch in a hotel room. It...
25th Dec 2025
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Winner, Name That Ware November 2025

from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Dec 2025
The Ware for November 2025 is a controller from the card-activated power switch in a hotel room. It was on the fritz, and when the repair person came and replaced it, Sam asked for the old module and brought it to me as a name that ware entry. Here’s the other circuit board that...
The Boot.dev Beat. February 2025 It’s official: TJ’s C course walkthrough was released before GTA6! This is a great month for...
4th Feb 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. February 2025

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Feb 2025
It’s official: TJ’s C course walkthrough was released before GTA6! This is a great month for Boot.dev, and for humanity as a whole.
CSS-Tricks could be a co-op I owe a lot of my professional identity and success to CSS-Tricks. CSS-Tricks repeatedly gave me the...
18th Sep 2026
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CSS-Tricks could be a co-op

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Sep 2026
I owe a lot of my professional identity and success to CSS-Tricks. CSS-Tricks repeatedly gave me the opportunity to write for them. In doing so, they helped to both socialize and normalize accessibility as a mainstream frontend concern. I’m deeply thankful to them for this. The...
Coming soon This is General Robots.
31st Jan 2023
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Coming soon

from General Robots [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Jan 2023
This is General Robots.
AI Startup Moats: The Difference Between Bakers and Ovens Are new AI startups "just another wrapper for a 3rd party model"? Does having an oven make you a...
9th Nov 2024
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AI Startup Moats: The Difference Between Bakers and Ovens

from Charles Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Nov 2024
Are new AI startups "just another wrapper for a 3rd party model"? Does having an oven make you a baker?
Attention is all you have The Tetris effect is one of psychology’s most easy to reproduce experiments. Simply spend a bit of...
21st Sep 2026
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Attention is all you have

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Sep 2026
The Tetris effect is one of psychology’s most easy to reproduce experiments. Simply spend a bit of time playing the eponymous game every day for a few weeks. After a little while, you’ll start recognizing familiar Tetromino shapes in clouds, buildings, and everyday objects. You...
Dynamic Viewports with CSS Dynamic Viewports with CSS 2023-02-08 I think it’s safe to assume most web designers and developers...
8th Feb 2023
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Dynamic Viewports with CSS

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Feb 2023
Dynamic Viewports with CSS 2023-02-08 I think it’s safe to assume most web designers and developers are familiar with the standard vh and vw parameters in CSS. These parameters are used for setting an element’s height and/or width, relative to the viewport (v) height (h) or width...
Stable Fiddusion Acko.queue(function () { renderMathInElement(document.querySelector('article'), {delimiters: [ ...
1st Oct 2023
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Stable Fiddusion

from Acko.net [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2023
Acko.queue(function () { renderMathInElement(document.querySelector('article'), {delimiters: [ {left: "$$", right: "$$", display: true}, {left: "$", right: "$", display: false}, ]}); }); Frequency-domain blue noise generator In computer graphics, stochastic...
Grats: A More Pleasant Way to Build TypeScript GraphQL Servers Bringing Implementation-First GraphQL to TypeScript via a novel static analysis approach.
5th Mar 2024
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Grats: A More Pleasant Way to Build TypeScript GraphQL Servers

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Mar 2024
Bringing Implementation-First GraphQL to TypeScript via a novel static analysis approach.
What I'm up to - August 2023 I'm Philip, and this is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social...
1st Aug 2023
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What I'm up to - August 2023

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Aug 2023
I'm Philip, and this is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. ✨ What I was up to in July Booklet is a product I've been building to help communi...
Best Thing(s) of All Time Ever. 3♠25♠2007 Steve Kerr during the 1997 NBA Championships. Cinema Insomnia with...
25th Mar 2007
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Best Thing(s) of All Time Ever.

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Mar 2007
3♠25♠2007 Steve Kerr during the 1997 NBA Championships. Cinema Insomnia with Mr. Lobo Firefox’s custom keyword searches. SuckUK’s Villain Chair. The Music video for This is Hardcore by Pulp I recovered this article from my old blog via the Internet Archive. If you found...
Visualizing distributions with pepperoni pizza (and javascript) There's a pizza shop near me that serves a normal pizza. I mean, they distribute the toppings in a...
18th Aug 2025
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Visualizing distributions with pepperoni pizza (and javascript)

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Aug 2025
There's a pizza shop near me that serves a normal pizza. I mean, they distribute the toppings in a normal way. They're not uniform at all. The toppings are random, but not the way I want. The colloquial understanding of "random" is kind of the Platonic ideal of a pizza: slightly...
Why I'm not a VC (yet) There is too much money chasing too few operators.
8th Aug 2021
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Why I'm not a VC (yet)

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Aug 2021
There is too much money chasing too few operators.
Poll: How anxious are you before an interview? From the HackerNews poll: Given the spike in interviewing questions, I’m curious to know: how...
11th Mar 2023
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Poll: How anxious are you before an interview?

from Ognjen Regoje • ognjen.io [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Mar 2023
From the HackerNews poll: Given the spike in interviewing questions, I’m curious to know: how anxious are you before an interview? To qualify the choices a bit: Not at all - I feel confident and not worried about the prospect of failure. A little - I’m fairly confident. Maybe the...
The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project
10th Jul 2020
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The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jul 2020
Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project
Managing your drafts through the API Now you can flesh out your newsletter, without committing to an actual send
1st Jul 2019
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Managing your drafts through the API

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jul 2019
Now you can flesh out your newsletter, without committing to an actual send
Rust Nation UK 2024 A month ago I received an email from the organisers of Rust Nation UK 2024 inviting me to speak at...
22nd Apr 2024
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Rust Nation UK 2024

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Apr 2024
A month ago I received an email from the organisers of Rust Nation UK 2024 inviting me to speak at the conference. One of the speakers got COVID and I was chosen to be their replacement. I had less than 48 hours to prepare the slides, which was a fun challenge, but very...
BERA Designed by How&How, London & Lisbon.
22nd Feb 2022
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BERA

from Identity Designed [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Feb 2022
Designed by How&How, London & Lisbon.
New Loose Leaf Security series: More on authentication and password managers Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about authentication and password...
30th Jun 2019
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30th Jun 2019
Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about authentication and password managers: Using a password manager effectively In a deeper exploration of password manager browser extensions and features for sharing as well as a survey of alternatives to password...
Why I'm not a VC (yet) There is too much money chasing too few operators.
8th Aug 2021
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Why I'm not a VC (yet)

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Aug 2021
There is too much money chasing too few operators.
New Site, New Theme for 2018 Building a WordPress theme (and a new brand) from scratch.
2nd Jan 2018
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New Site, New Theme for 2018

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jan 2018
Building a WordPress theme (and a new brand) from scratch.
A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it A bold first sentence that draws you in. A steering second sentence to set you further down the...
9th Apr 2026
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A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Apr 2026
A bold first sentence that draws you in. A steering second sentence to set you further down the path. A third sentence that tantalizes and alludes to content to follow. Following is an initial explanatory paragraph. It serves to help back up the previous paragraphs, and start to...
Introducting BitMaelum - A new mail concept Introducting BitMaelum - A new mail concept
12th Jun 2020
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Introducting BitMaelum - A new mail concept

from A Day In The Life Of... [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Jun 2020
Introducting BitMaelum - A new mail concept
Guile-websocket 0.3.0 released I'm happy to announce that guile-websocket 0.3.0 has been released! Guile-websocket is an...
23rd Jan 2026
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Guile-websocket 0.3.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Jan 2026
I'm happy to announce that guile-websocket 0.3.0 has been released! Guile-websocket is an implementation of the WebSocket protocol, both the client and server sides, for Guile Scheme. Highlights for this release are: New (web socket) module that provides a standard Scheme...
content slop AI slop is everywhere. But what even is slop and is AI really to blame?
5th Feb 2025
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content slop

from David Gerrells [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Feb 2025
AI slop is everywhere. But what even is slop and is AI really to blame?
Building a new personal website Yesterday I launched a new version of this website. When finishing big projects, I always experience...
15th Feb 2021
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Building a new personal website

from Daniel Immke [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Feb 2021
Yesterday I launched a new version of this website. When finishing big projects, I always experience this odd phenomenon where the final…
The things we do to ship desktop software I wrote a small utility for Windows. It indexes a hard-drive and allows to find a file by name in...
1st May 2019
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The things we do to ship desktop software

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2019
I wrote a small utility for Windows. It indexes a hard-drive and allows to find a file by name in under a second. It might surprise you that I spent more time on things that are not related to core functionality. Let’s call it a tax of shipping desktop software. Here are some of...
Amazon's Top Rated Items I developed a set of scripts that scrape Amazon’s product pages. The result of scraping and...
18th Feb 2013
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Amazon's Top Rated Items

from Alex Meub [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Feb 2013
I developed a set of scripts that scrape Amazon’s product pages. The result of scraping and processing nearly 300,000 products from 26 departments is my own Amazon Top 400 List. _chart("scatter","scatter-chart2", "Amazon Product Ratings", {categories:[ 'Average Rating', 'Number...
Tools ≠ skills A couple of years ago at Jenni we spent time breaking down retention strategies of software...
4th Aug 2025
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Tools ≠ skills

from Marc Astbury [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Aug 2025
A couple of years ago at Jenni we spent time breaking down retention strategies of software products. One pattern we found is where ability to use a tool becomes a synonym for the skill it supports (e.g. Photoshop/ Illustrator). The term we coined internally was ‘product as a...
A Tour of Winamp2-js Features Demo videos of Winamp2-js' more interesting features with notes on how they are implemented.
8th Mar 2018
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A Tour of Winamp2-js Features

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Mar 2018
Demo videos of Winamp2-js' more interesting features with notes on how they are implemented.
Alfred vs. Raycast: my constant debate After a year or so of using Raycast, I'm switching back to Alfred. This is what prompted me to make...
24th Jul 2023
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Alfred vs. Raycast: my constant debate

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Jul 2023
After a year or so of using Raycast, I'm switching back to Alfred. This is what prompted me to make that decision, and why I may or may not stick with it.
Creating order from chaos in a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been...
6th Mar 2011
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Creating order from chaos in a startup

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Mar 2011
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been pondering recently about how my latest venture has very much felt like cycling between creating order from chaos and then ending up with chaos again. I wanted to share my experiences and...
Moving to San Francisco YC (a startup accelerator we are taking part in) ask you to move to the Bay Area for the whole...
24th Feb 2020
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Moving to San Francisco

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Feb 2020
YC (a startup accelerator we are taking part in) ask you to move to the Bay Area for the whole program. This gives you “a socially acceptable excuse…
Using the ':not()' pseudo-class to remove styles from ':last-child' I was re-designing the footer for my blog when I added a list of social icon links. I needed to add...
1st Dec 2024
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Using the ':not()' pseudo-class to remove styles from ':last-child'

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2024
I was re-designing the footer for my blog when I added a list of social icon links. I needed to add some padding between them, as one does, and was preparing to apply padding to the left of each icon so the final icon on the right remained aligned right. On smaller screens, when...
Sloppy Copies Last month, I wrote an article about my recent experience creating a hobby project in a web...
19th Apr 2026
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Sloppy Copies

from markround.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Apr 2026
Last month, I wrote an article about my recent experience creating a hobby project in a web framework - Ruby on Rails - that hasn’t been “in fashion” for some time. The blog post gathered some interest and made it to various discussion sites like Hacker News and others. It caused...
Towards Inserting One Billion Rows in SQLite Under A Minute This is a chronicle of my experiment where I set out to insert 1B rows in SQLite
17th Jul 2021
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Towards Inserting One Billion Rows in SQLite Under A Minute

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Jul 2021
This is a chronicle of my experiment where I set out to insert 1B rows in SQLite
Fast Linear Gradient Fills with OffscreenCanvas TLDR: Demo is here, Code is here, App is here In Kidz Fun Art, the web app for tablets I’ve built...
27th May 2024
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Fast Linear Gradient Fills with OffscreenCanvas

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th May 2024
TLDR: Demo is here, Code is here, App is here In Kidz Fun Art, the web app for tablets I’ve built for my kids and hopefully yours, I recently added a nice little feature where you can fill in any area with a linear gradient. It’s highly responsive to the user moving their...
9th Jul 2017
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On benchmarking

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jul 2017
1st Apr 2021
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Pay-what-you-want subscriptions

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Apr 2021
This is no joke.
Happy New Year: Diffusion Model image generator in about 700 lines of pure SQL Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it...
31st Dec 2024
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Happy New Year: Diffusion Model image generator in about 700 lines of pure SQL

from EXPLAIN EXTENDED [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Dec 2024
Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it to draw snowflakes, fractals, ray-traced 3D pictures, and many other things. SQL art is beautiful, albeit slow to generate. These days they say AI is taking over, and human-made...
Binstack: Making a maximal multi-dimensional decision Rubrics are often used to select the best option in a multi-dimensional decision space. However,...
2nd Jul 2022
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Binstack: Making a maximal multi-dimensional decision

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jul 2022
Rubrics are often used to select the best option in a multi-dimensional decision space. However, they often do not clearly identify a winner, nor do they result in an explanation of the decision that is easily communicated to others, especially those whose favorite option was...
Public descriptions for tags Add context to subscriber-editable tags with a new API field.
3rd Feb 2026
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Public descriptions for tags

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Feb 2026
Add context to subscriber-editable tags with a new API field.
JS13K 2018 Retrospective In one of my weekly developer emails, I saw a link for JS13KGames. I've always wanted to create a...
15th Oct 2018
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JS13K 2018 Retrospective

from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Oct 2018
In one of my weekly developer emails, I saw a link for JS13KGames. I've always wanted to create a video game. I asked my JavaScript-whiz buddy, Brad, if he was interested in building a game with me. Without hesitation, he said “Yes!” Concept A couple of years ago I came up with...
A Quick Look at Portland Parking Ticket Data I work in downtown Portland and see a lot of people getting parking tickets every day (parking is...
5th Feb 2019
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A Quick Look at Portland Parking Ticket Data

from Alex Meub [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Feb 2019
I work in downtown Portland and see a lot of people getting parking tickets every day (parking is one of the reasons I ride my bike to work). I was curious to learn more about it. Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, Portland parking ticket data is available to anyone who...
Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and...
23rd Nov 2021
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Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Nov 2021
Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and how to construct a CRDT for rich text.
Boot.dev Beat. January 2023 If you can’t tell from my absurd profile photo below, I’ve been having too much fun with AI art this...
1st Feb 2023
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Boot.dev Beat. January 2023

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Feb 2023
If you can’t tell from my absurd profile photo below, I’ve been having too much fun with AI art this month.
Sometimes never compete on price The difference between "low prices" as a race to the bottom or as a success story (like Amazon,...
6th Apr 2025
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Sometimes never compete on price

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Apr 2025
The difference between "low prices" as a race to the bottom or as a success story (like Amazon, Costco, IKEA, Vanguard) is in leveraging intentional weaknesses.
GPG Things Get your fingerprint: gpg --list-secret-keys --fingerprint Get someone elses key Using email gpg2...
3rd Dec 2015
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GPG Things

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Dec 2015
Get your fingerprint: gpg --list-secret-keys --fingerprint Get someone elses key Using email gpg2 --search-keys EMAIL Using keyid gpg2 --recv-key KEYID Sign keys gpg2 --recv-key KEYID gpg2 --sign-key KEYID gpg2 --send-key KEYID Photos View someone's photo gpg...
28th Dec 2020
1st Jul 2022
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July 2022

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jul 2022
2025 Advice to my old selves I turned a birthday recently and it was so busy (DataCouncil + sg flight) that i never really got...
15th May 2025
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2025 Advice to my old selves

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th May 2025
I turned a birthday recently and it was so busy (DataCouncil + sg flight) that i never really got the chance to sit and reflect. a lot of things are going well, lots more could be better. I'm the only person responsible for preserving the good and fixing the bad. I'm now back on...
6th Nov 2012
What I'm up to - September 2026 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I am up to. What I did in August I moved back to New York....
1st Sep 2026
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What I'm up to - September 2026

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Sep 2026
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I am up to. What I did in August I moved back to New York. I have been busy bouncing between hotels and touring potential homes. I visited Copenhagen for an event at noma.
Recently This was a big month of change for me – I announced that I was joining Val.town and wrote a big...
1st Feb 2023
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Recently

from macwright.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Feb 2023
This was a big month of change for me – I announced that I was joining Val.town and wrote a big update about Placemark. Plenty more to write, but at least here I’ll take a little breather and just do the usual: what’s new! Reading I only finished one book this month - Meet Us By...
26th Mar 2019
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Learning Ada

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Mar 2019
Alt-Numpad for Linux In Ubuntu the alt+numpad ACSII codes don’t work—this was a major stumbling block for me since I am...
26th Jul 2011
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Alt-Numpad for Linux

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Jul 2011
In Ubuntu the alt+numpad ACSII codes don’t work—this was a major stumbling block for me since I am annoyingly picky about typography. After spending way too much time Googling I found that these steps work: Hold Ctrl+Shift+U Release the “U” key (while still holding...
15th Feb 2023
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Running around Albany

from James Vaughan's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Feb 2023
Tips for a successful WooCommerce project I recently wrapped up a very large WooCommerce build that I am planning on writing a case study for...
29th Oct 2017
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Tips for a successful WooCommerce project

from Daniel Immke [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Oct 2017
I recently wrapped up a very large WooCommerce build that I am planning on writing a case study for next month. In the meantime, I thought I…
Recently If you’re reading this on macwright.com, you might have noticed that the website got a very slight...
1st Jun 2024
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Recently

from macwright.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2024
If you’re reading this on macwright.com, you might have noticed that the website got a very slight upgrade this month. I’ve been publishing a lot of content in the /micro/ section, and I update my /reading/ list once or twice a month when I finish books, but these proper...
Install Mcrypt PHP Extension on OSX Yosemite After updating Statamic to 1.10.2, I started getting Mcrypt errors. After some Googling, I found...
29th Jan 2015
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Install Mcrypt PHP Extension on OSX Yosemite

from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Jan 2015
After updating Statamic to 1.10.2, I started getting Mcrypt errors. After some Googling, I found some complicated fixes. After some noodling around, here’s a simple way to fix it with Homebrew: First, figure out which version of PHP you’re running. You can do this by opening up...
Public postmortem: database connection exhaustion Our public postmortem for the incident on March 31st, 2026.
1st Apr 2026
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Public postmortem: database connection exhaustion

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Apr 2026
Our public postmortem for the incident on March 31st, 2026.
The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU...
16th Jul 2021
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The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs

from Copper • A blog about conductive layers [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jul 2021
One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU faster than the latest 16 inch MacBook, while my work-provided 15 inch 2019 MacBook Pro was slowly frying my lap and annoying my wife with its constant fan noise. I had to get my...
Beware the cloud of hype We don't know how this AI thing will turn out, but there is much to be learned from the cycles of...
4th Jun 2024
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Beware the cloud of hype

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jun 2024
We don't know how this AI thing will turn out, but there is much to be learned from the cycles of hype that have already occurred on the web. The post Beware the cloud of hype appeared first on The History of the Web.
The Death of Personality The Death of Personality 2017-11-01 On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything...
1st Nov 2017
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The Death of Personality

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Nov 2017
The Death of Personality 2017-11-01 On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything from icon and app design to UI and experience interactions) began it's fast decline into the abyss with the release of Apple's iOS 7 update. It was called revolutionary. It was...
Clickable Links Inside XML Clickable Links Inside XML 2022-06-20 With the recent patch1 to the Shinobi Website project, I...
20th Jun 2022
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Clickable Links Inside XML

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Jun 2022
Clickable Links Inside XML 2022-06-20 With the recent patch1 to the Shinobi Website project, I thought it would be best to share my experience implementing clickable links inside a rendered XML RSS file directly through a browser. This is made possible thanks to the awesome power...
What I'm up to - October 2025 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Oct 2025
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What I'm up to - October 2025

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in September - Spent Labor Day in Boulder - Went to Alchemy Springs Sauna in SF- I'm happy to see...
Automatically Reload Modules with %autoreload Writing my first module in Python was a confusing experience. As it usually happens, when I was...
1st Oct 2019
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Automatically Reload Modules with %autoreload

from Sebastian Witowski [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2019
Writing my first module in Python was a confusing experience. As it usually happens, when I was testing it in the interactive Python REPL, the first version turned out to have some bugs (the second and third ones also did 😉). That's fine - I thought - I will just fix the module...
 🎭 Owning up to your mistakes Some self reflection on owning up to your mistakes. A few weeks ago my business partner Jakob...
19th Apr 2022
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 🎭 Owning up to your mistakes

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Apr 2022
Some self reflection on owning up to your mistakes. A few weeks ago my business partner Jakob mentioned that I […] The post  🎭 Owning up to your mistakes appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
CalVer 26.0: 10th Anniversary Edition A decade ago, a little bit of history was made. I didn't realize it, but a colleague made a great...
a week ago
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CalVer 26.0: 10th Anniversary Edition

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

a week ago
A decade ago, a little bit of history was made. I didn't realize it, but a colleague made a great point, one of those real mind-changing points that seem too obvious to admit same-day. But, the next day, calver.org was born. At the time my team maintained the Python...
Accurate Predictions In November 2020, I read the book Apollo’s Arrow after hearing Dr Christakis on NPR’s Fresh Air....
6th Jun 2023
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Accurate Predictions

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jun 2023
In November 2020, I read the book Apollo’s Arrow after hearing Dr Christakis on NPR’s Fresh Air. Somewhere midway through this book, this paragraph stood out to me: “Either way, until 2022, Americans will live in an acutely changed world—they will be wearing masks, for example,...
30th Nov 2016
how to use web workers with typescript A practical example of where web workers can improve performance and UX but there are gotchas and...
13th Mar 2022
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how to use web workers with typescript

from David Gerrells [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Mar 2022
A practical example of where web workers can improve performance and UX but there are gotchas and limits
A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone...
4th Nov 2024
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A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Nov 2024
It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone using them? It turns out that container queries are kinda tricky; they’re not as straightforward as media queries. In this tutorial, we’ll break it all down and make sense of...
On Engineers and Influence (Based on yesterday’s tweetstorm and the ensuing...
17th Aug 2018
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On Engineers and Influence

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Aug 2018
(Based on yesterday’s tweetstorm and the ensuing conversation, https://twitter.com/mipsytipsy/status/1029608573217587201) Let’s talk about influence. As an engineer, how do you get influence? What does influence look like, what is it rooted in, how do you wield it or lose it? How...
fibre broadband anticlimax How can something that “just works” be so annoying? situation We live in Cambridge off a little road...
17th Sep 2026
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fibre broadband anticlimax

from Tony Finch's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Sep 2026
How can something that “just works” be so annoying? situation We live in Cambridge off a little road down a drive in shared ownership between us and our neighbouring houses. All the utilities are buried under this drive, including the phone line. anticipation Over the last few...
How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document’s keystrokes If you’ve ever typed anything into a Google Doc, you can now play it back as if it were a movie —...
10th Nov 2014
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How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document’s keystrokes

from the jsomers.net blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Nov 2014
If you’ve ever typed anything into a Google Doc, you can now play it back as if it were a movie — like traveling through time to look over your own shoulder as you write. This is possible because every document written in Google Docs since about May 2010 has a revision history...
Towards better 1-on-1s: an awkward manifesto It is unimaginably hard to […] stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out. –...
22nd Apr 2023
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Towards better 1-on-1s: an awkward manifesto

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Apr 2023
It is unimaginably hard to […] stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out. – David Foster Wallace, This is Water At the heart of my management philosophy lies a simple belief: people are working as hard as they can. It’s a lazy assumption to assume people are...
Tokenmaxxing, Promomaxxing, and Misaligned Incentives in Tech When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
7th May 2026
1

Tokenmaxxing, Promomaxxing, and Misaligned Incentives in Tech

from Engineer’s Codex [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th May 2026
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing...
2nd Dec 2024
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Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Dec 2024
Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing that final 10% that really makes it shine. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create the most realistic lush frosted glass anywhere on the internet.
Building Wi-Fi Buttons with ESP8266 Four years ago, I wrote about using Amazon Dash buttons as simple hackable Wi-Fi buttons. It’s...
1st Aug 2020
60

Building Wi-Fi Buttons with ESP8266

from Alex Meub [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Aug 2020
Four years ago, I wrote about using Amazon Dash buttons as simple hackable Wi-Fi buttons. It’s pretty cool to order pizza, turn on a light, send a tweet, or even run a custom script at the press of a physical button. But I recently tried to use one of my dash buttons and couldn’t...
Why I hate JavaScript numbers and what everyone has (not) done with them JavaScript went against the grain in only using floating point numbers initially, and now we pay the...
26th Mar 2025
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Why I hate JavaScript numbers and what everyone has (not) done with them

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Mar 2025
JavaScript went against the grain in only using floating point numbers initially, and now we pay the price
From Mac to Windows From Mac to Windows
12th Aug 2020
19

From Mac to Windows

from A Day In The Life Of... [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Aug 2020
From Mac to Windows
What I'm up to - August 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Aug 2024
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What I'm up to - August 2024

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Aug 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in late June + July - Been working hard on Find AI - rolling out lots of feature and updates, st...
Why I Moved Off Dev.to 2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just...
1st Jun 2022
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Why I Moved Off Dev.to

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2022
2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just launched DXTips on Hashnode.
Take a hard game, and make it shorter You are of course aware that attention spans are shrinking. YouTube -> Shorts, Instagram Reels,...
16th Feb 2026
1

Take a hard game, and make it shorter

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Feb 2026
You are of course aware that attention spans are shrinking. YouTube -> Shorts, Instagram Reels, Tiktoks, etc have taken over the world.
Chickadee 0.10.0 released I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.10.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development...
24th May 2023
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Chickadee 0.10.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th May 2023
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.10.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile. Chickadee aims to provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers need to make 2D and 3D games in Scheme. This release is on the smaller side...
Why you Might Want to Extend React Components Do not extend components. If there is anything React community agrees upon, this is it. Use HOCs....
5th Nov 2018
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Why you Might Want to Extend React Components

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Nov 2018
Do not extend components. If there is anything React community agrees upon, this is it. Use HOCs. Use state managers (and their connector HOCs). Use render props. Do not inherit. Remember, composition over inheritance! Obey your guru. Once upon a time, a developer extended his...
Moonlight's pitch deck In 2017, I co-founded Moonlight as a professional community for software developers with Emma...
15th Oct 2020
1

Moonlight's pitch deck

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Oct 2020
In 2017, I co-founded Moonlight as a professional community for software developers with Emma Lawler. We were both leaving San Francisco, and wanted to make it easier for all developers to find specia...
Go package for better guid generation The need to generate a globally unique identifier comes up often. The way described in RFC 4122 is...
12th Feb 2015
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Go package for better guid generation

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Feb 2015
The need to generate a globally unique identifier comes up often. The way described in RFC 4122 is popular but it can be done better. I wrote betterguid Go package that does it better. Unique id generated by this package: is a 20 character string, safe to include in urls (no need...
Learn Go Fast - Top Courses and Resources Want to learn Go fast? The good news is that Go is one of the simplest programming languages out...
2nd Nov 2020
1

Learn Go Fast - Top Courses and Resources

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Nov 2020
Want to learn Go fast? The good news is that Go is one of the simplest programming languages out there. It was designed to have a compact feature set, which means you can learn it much faster than most other languages.
I did a Q/A with the Reactiflux community Read the transcript of a live Q/A I did about Webamp and Nuclide.
18th May 2018
1

I did a Q/A with the Reactiflux community

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th May 2018
Read the transcript of a live Q/A I did about Webamp and Nuclide.
My wireguard IPv6 tunnel Our net connection at home is not great: amongst its several misfeatures is a lack of IPv6....
30th Apr 2024
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My wireguard IPv6 tunnel

from Tony Finch's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Apr 2024
Our net connection at home is not great: amongst its several misfeatures is a lack of IPv6. Yesterday I (at last!) got around to setting up a wireguard IPv6 VPN tunnel between my workstation and my Mythic Beasts virtual private server. There were a few, um, learning...
25th Apr 2022
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Joining Arcol

from James Vaughan's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Apr 2022
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